Candidates of the 2006 Victorian state election explained

This article provides details on candidates for the 2006 Victorian election, held on 25 November 2006.

Retiring MPs

Labor

• Mary Delahunty MLA (Northcote) – announced retirement October 2006.
• Sherryl Garbutt MLA (Bundoora) – retired.
• Mary Gillett MLA (Tarneit) – lost preselection.
• Michael Leighton MLA (Preston) – retired.
• Peter Loney MLA (Lara) – retired after it became clear he would lose preselection.
• Bruce Mildenhall MLA (Footscray) – retired.
• Dale Wilson MLA (Narre Warren South) – lost preselection.
• Helen Buckingham MLC (Koonung Province) – retired due to ill health.
• Monica Gould MLC (Doutta Galla Province) – retired.
• Geoff Hilton MLC (Western Port Province – lost preselection.
• John McQuilten MLC (Ballarat Province) – retired.
• Sang Nguyen MLC (Melbourne West Province) – lost preselection.

Liberal

• Robin Cooper MLA (Mornington) – retired.
• Robert Doyle MLA (Malvern) – retired.
• Phil Honeywood MLA (Warrandyte) – retired.
• Victor Perton MLA (Doncaster) – retired.
• Tony Plowman MLA (Benambra) – retired.
• Ron Bowden MLC (South Eastern Province) – retired.
• Andrew Brideson MLC (Waverley Province) – retired.
• Bill Forwood MLC (Templestowe Province) – retired.
• Graeme Stoney MLC (Central Highlands Province) – retired.
• Chris Strong MLC (Higinbotham Province) – lost preselection.

National

• Noel Maughan MLA (Rodney) – retired.
• Barry Bishop MLC (North Western Province) – retired.

Independent

• Carolyn Hirsh MLC (Silvan Province) – elected as Labor.
• Andrew Olexander MLC (Silvan Province) – elected as Liberal.

Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates	National candidates	Other candidates
			John Thwaites	Clive Smith	John Middleton	Sam Robertson		Adrian Jackson (Ind) Stratos Pavlis (PP) David Reece (CEC)
			Lynne Kosky	Ian Soylemez	Andreas Bischof	David Bernard
			Geoff Howard	Geoff Hayes	Michele Harvie	Grace Bailey		Dianne Hadden (Ind)
			Karen Overington	Shane Brennan	Belinda Coates	Dale Butterfield
		John Anderson		Ken Smith	Tully Fletcher	Cameron Begg	Jacky Abbott	Cheryl Billing-Smith (Ind) Robert Brown (PP)
		Peter Lockwood			James Tennant	Warwick Murphy		Gordon Ashley (Ind) Kurt Beilharz (CEC) Stephanie Mortimer (PP) Steve Raskovy (Ind)
			Lisa Neville	Don Gibson	Justin Teague	Len Lengyal
			Hamish McMillan	Kammy Cordner-Hunt	Jim Reiney		Bill Sykes
		Lisa Mahood			Helen Robinson	Martin Corboy		Shane Pearce (Ind)
			Jacinta Allan	Kevin Gibbins	John Bardsley	Gail Hardy	John Manning	Colin James (PP)
			Bob Cameron	Bruce McClure	Sue-Ellen Radford	Rachel Harrison	Glenn Murrells
			Rob Hudson	James Gobbo	Peter D'Arcy	Michael Portelli		Colin Horne (CEC)
		Robert Chong		Robert Clark	Peter Campbell	Gary Ong		Christine Cumming (PP)
		Jane Shelton		Louise Asher	Jonathan Walters	Mark Freeman		Clifford Hayes (Ind)
			John Brumby	Daniel Parsons	Emily Taylor	Gerard Hines		Marlene Ebejer (PP) Will Marshall (Ind) Sleiman Yohanna (CEC)
			Carlo Carli	Vince Arborea	Cyndi Dawes	James McDonald		Christian Astorian (PP) Vannessa Hearman (SA)
		Neill Campbell		Nicholas Kotsiras	Fiona MacKenzie	Carmen Tong
				Kane Afford	Sarah Jefford	Dean Cronkwright		Julie Anderson (PP) Rod McLennan (CEC)
			Bob Stensholt	Graham Bailey	John Presley	John Caravan
			Jenny Lindell	Jeff Shelley	Carlos Lopez	Michael McLean		Ronnie Musster (Ind) Alan Thompson (Ind)
		Steven Cusworth		Helen Shardey	Peter Job	Eric Labonne
			Hong Lim	Michael Carty	Siobhan Isherwood	Emyr Aditya		Simon Hall (CEC)
			Jude Perera	Luke Martin	Hillary Bray	Mark Hermans
			John Pandazopoulos	Cameron Nicholls	Peter Blair	Peter Dorian
			Telmo Languiller	Charles Tran	Marc Purcell	Margaret Foster		Rod Doel (CEC) Jorge Jorquera (Ind)
					Chris Gymer	Dot Peak		Irene Goonan (Ind) Graham Wynn (PP)
			Steve Herbert		Damien Magner	Shane Porter
			Judy Maddigan	Conrad D'Souza	Bob Muntz	Arthur Tsiglopoulos		Jeremy Beck (CEC) Phillip Cutler (Ind)
		Heather McTaggart			Justine Indigo-Rose	Roger Williamson		Peter Byrne (PP)
		Anne Eckstein			Steve Bullock	Allister Rouse		Adrian Dowell (PP) Ross Russell (CEC)
				Cam Nation	Greg Ferrington	Ronald Berchy		Catherine Cumming (Ind) Margarita Windisch (SA)
			Kirstie Marshall		Mick Kir	Stella Collins
			Alistair Harkness	Rochelle McArthur	Wendy Smith	Michael Pleiter		Fletcher Davis (Ind)
			Ian Trezise	Scott Dixon	Bruce Lindsay	Gary Plumridge		Elsie Teer (PP)
			Tammy Lobato	Simon Wildes	Gordon Watson	Peter Gebbing	Peter McConachy	Robyn Allcock (PP) Frank Dean (Ind)
		Zach Smith	Peter Bommer	Geoff de Jonge	Dean Beveridge	Chris Nixon		Clint Eastwood (Ind) Craig Ingram* (Ind)
		Steve Boyce	Simon Wilson	Jackie Dargaville	Clare Heath		Peter Ryan	Theo Alblas (CEC) Jo McCubbin (Ind)
		Rosy Buchanan			Francine Buckley	Melanie Marcin	Jim King	Stuart Holm (PP)
		John McNally		Ted Baillieu	Lynda Birch	Veronica Sidhu
			Craig Langdon		Marisa Palmer	Kevin Tan		Jenny Mulholland (Ind)
			George Seitz	John Clifford	Lisa Asbury	Scott Amberley
		Maree Williams		Andrew McIntosh	Emma Henley	Wallis Patterson		John Dobinson (Ind)
		Dympna Beard			Salore Craig	Gillian Schwab		Patsy Hill (Ind)
			Andre Haermeyer	Mick Alexander		Tania Walters		Andre Kozlowski (CEC)
				Angelo Kakouros	Catherine Jones	Peter Haines		Brent Lyons-Lee (PP)
		Paul Battista	Katrina Rainsford	Rob Daly	Graeme Presser		Hugh Delahunty
			Tim Holding	Gary Anderton	Andrew Henley	Jenny Walsh		Gordon Ford (Ind)
			Joanne Duncan	Robyne Head	Leigh Johnson	Frank O'Connor		Barry Dave (Ind) Rob Guthrie (PP) Steve Medcraft (Ind)
		Paul Vout			Tania Giles	Ann Grauer		Deborah Holmes (PP)
			Bronwyn Pike	Steve Pappas	Richard Di Natale	Rebecca Gebbing		Kevin Chamberlin (Ind) Isabell Collins (PP)
			Don Nardella	Graham Hooper	Jeremy Sanders	Pamela Lee		John Goodman (Ind) John Southall (Ind)
		Alison Smith	Gavin Sedgmen	Bruce Rivendell				Chris Katis (Ind) Russell Savage (Ind)
			Lily D'Ambrosio	Adam Papaevangelou	Benedict Hughes	Carmen McLeod		Christine Stow (PP)
			Tony Robinson	Philip Daw	Robert Redman	Miriam Rawson		Peter Allan (Ind) Sharon Partridge (PP)
			James Merlino	Clive Larkman	Robert Stephen	Carl Huybers		Joanne Stride (PP)
			Janice Munt	Stephen Hartney	Shana Nerenberg	Jadah Milroy
		William Puls			Malcolm Jones	Thea Clarke		Mark Fleming (PP)
		Brendan Jenkins	Stephen Parker	Jeff Wrathall	Katy Koo			Lisa Proctor (Ind) Ian Radford (PP)
			Maxine Morand		John Poppins	John Boland		Kali Paxinos (PP) Neil Smith (Ind)
			Daniel Andrews	Ashton Ashokkumar	Jon Owen	Penny Badwal
		Lauren O'Neill	Nick McHugh	Carol Kunert	Gary Duke		Ken Jasper
		Ian Maxfield			Kate Jackson	Terry McKenna	John Verhoeven	Steven Bird (CEC) Roger Marks (PP)
			Luke Donnellan	Mick Morland	Bree Taylor	Peterine Smulders		Ian Murphy (PP)
				Michael Shepherdson	Meg Tanti	Bronwyn Rawlins
		Anne Marshall		Martin Dixon	Henry Kelsall	Craig Nelson
			Rob Hulls	James Buonopane	Gwen Lee	Mark Markovic
					Alex Bhathal	Daniel Willis		Darren Lewin-Hill (Ind)
			Ann Barker	Colin Dixon	Matthew Billman	Joyce Khoo
			Christine Campbell	Claude Tomisich	David Collis	Stefan Pittari		Noelene Isherwood (CEC)
				Terry Mulder	Natalie Atherden	Trevor Pearce
			Tony Lupton		Justin Walker	Gary Pinto
				Peter Hammond	Chris Chaplin	Christopher Field		Robert Barwick (CEC)
			Richard Wynne	Maina Walkley	Gurm Sekhon	Ann Bown Seeley		Richard Grummet (PP) Steve Jolly (Ind) Luke Watts (Ind)
			Joe Helper	Vic Dunn	Steve Morse	Leanne Rawson	Robyn Smith
		Nicola Castleman	Neil Repacholi	Beck Lowe	Paul Bachelor			Tony Murphy (Ind) Jeff Simmons (Ind)
				Murray Thompson	Bruce McPhate	Stuart Campbell		Sonia Castelli (Ind)
		Gerry Raleigh		Kim Wells	Rex Thompson	Peter Lake		John Tibble (PP)
			Ben Hardman	Mike Dalmau	Sean O'Sullivan	Josh Dolan		Robert Gordon (PP)
		James Taylor	Stephen Merrylees	Doug Ralph	Neil Meyer		Jeanette Powell
			Michael Crutchfield	Michael King	Matthew Walters	Jonathan Tinney		John Lambert (Ind)
		Roy Reekie		Denis Napthine	Phoebe Adams	Barry Wilson		Mike Noske (PP)
		Glenn Morrison	Suellen Tomamichel	Simon Roberts	Martin Jones		Peter Walsh	Trudy Campbell (CEC)
				Mark Rose	Pamela Boyd	Christopher Harrison		John Gibbons (Ind) Michael Goldsworthy (PP)
			Peter Batchelor	Simon Coles	Jen Hargrave	Tim Rebecchi
		Jarrod Panther			David Ellis	Paul Bronti
			Steve Bracks	Alan Evers-Buckland	Michael Faltermaier	Veronica Hayes		Wajde Assaf (Ind)
			Danielle Green	Aneta Ivanovski	Karin Geradts	Matthew Field		Belinda Clarkson (Ind) Brian Mawhinney (PP)
			Liz Beattie	Catherine Finn	Belinda Connell	George Barrett

Legislative Council

The 40 members of the Legislative Council were elected under a proportional representation system. Each region elected five members. Sitting members are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MLC are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

Eastern Metropolitan

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates	DLP candidates
valign=top	Shaun Leane Brian Tee Andrew McKenzie Coral Delarue Mike Symon	valign=top	Richard Dalla-Riva Bruce Atkinson Jan Kronberg Gladys Liu Matthew Koce	valign=top	Bill Pemberton Kiera Perrott Nina Scott Howard Tankey Janet Powell	valign=top	Chris Willis May Ng Fiona Bronte John Bridge Pat Murray	valign=top	Greg Byrne Ken Wells
Democrats candidates	People Power candidates
valign=top	Craig Beale Mary Dettman Rachel Aza	valign=top	Karin Orpen John Giles	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top

Eastern Victoria

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	National candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates
valign=top	Matt Viney Johan Scheffer Glenyys Romanes Gregg Cook Ann Dettrick	valign=top	Philip Davis Edward O'Donohue Susie Manson Sarah Meredith Daniel Hyland	valign=top	Peter Hall Janice Coates Wesley Head Jenny Hammett Neville Buckland	valign=top	Louis Delacretaz Jill Redwood George Beardsley Catheryn Thompson Daniel Jordan	valign=top	Cameron Eastman Joshua Reimer Wendy Buchanan Mark Harvey Marcus van Enik
DLP candidates	People Power candidates	CDP candidates	Country Alliance candidates	Group F candidates
valign=top	Pat Crea Pat Lamanna Margaret Hansen Teresa Evelyn-Liardet	valign=top	Gabriela Byrne Jodie Hughson	valign=top	Wolfgang Voigt Eddie Brockhus	valign=top	Andrew Jones Peter Kelly	valign=top	Henrie Ellis Stephen Pearman
Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Adnan Glibanovic	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top		valign=top

Northern Metropolitan

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates	DLP candidates
valign=top	Theo Theophanous Jenny Mikakos Nazih Elasmar Michele Ryan Joe Caputo	valign=top	Matthew Guy Dino de Marchi Emilia Arnus	valign=top	Greg Barber Priya Carey Hoa Pham Glenn Osboldstone Daniel Marti	valign=top	Liz Bos Amy Shand Giacomo Angeli Roy Crea	valign=top	John Mulholland Kevin Harwood
Democrats candidates	People Power candidates	Group D candidates
valign=top	Geoff Lutz Jessica Healy Robert Stone	valign=top	Barbara Biggs Vern Hughes	valign=top	Joseph Kaliniy Koulla Mesaritis Alexios Alexopoulos Mousti Senkul	valign=top		valign=top

Northern Victoria

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	National candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates
valign=top	Candy Broad Kaye Darveniza Marg Lewis Brad Dobson Jamie Byron	valign=top	Wendy Lovell Donna Petrovich John Lithgow Zie Devereux Michael Gillies Smith	valign=top	Damian Drum Rachel McAsey Justin Scholz Robert Michell Brian O'Sullivan	valign=top	Jennifer Alden Jon Baly Jenny O'Connor	valign=top	Nathan Hulls Mary Lou Corboy Nathanael Valentine Helen Leach
DLP candidates	People Power candidates	CDP candidates	Country Alliance candidates	Group E candidates
valign=top	Andrew Robinson Paul McCormack Sharon Lane	valign=top	Denise Allen Phil Bachmann	valign=top	Phil Seymour Ewan McDonald	valign=top	Danny Lee Fred Goodwin	valign=top	Stefano de Pieri Helen Healy Geoff Brown Joe Rocca Neil Fettling
Group H candidates
valign=top	Laurie Whelan Peter O'Brien	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top		valign=top

South Eastern Metropolitan

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates	DLP candidates
valign=top	Gavin Jennings Adem Somyurek Bob Smith Vince Rossi Shilana Yip	valign=top	Gordon Rich-Phillips Inga Peulich Ken Ong Susanne La Fontaine John Aivaliotis	valign=top	Jim Reiher Nicole Avery Dean Andrew	valign=top	Ann-Marie Hermans Steven Ashdown Ann Ross Annette Blazé	valign=top	Denise de Graaff Frances Murphy
Democrats candidates	People Power candidates	CDP candidates	Group E candidates
valign=top	Karen Bailey David Batten Daniel Berk	valign=top	Linda Hancock Maria Pazaitis	valign=top	Sandra Herrmann Jenny Zuiderwyk	valign=top	Geraldine Gonsalvez Julie Boustead	valign=top

Southern Metropolitan

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates	DLP candidates
valign=top	John Lenders Evan Thornley Shelly Freeman Alexandria Hicks Pablo Salina	valign=top	David Davis Andrea Coote David Southwick Michael Heffernan Kaye Farrow	valign=top	Sue Pennicuik Heather Welsh Ray Walford Clare Pilcher Teresa Puszka	valign=top	John McSwiney John Friebel Brian Campbell	valign=top	Gerry Flood Brian Maunder Terry O'Hanlon
Democrats candidates	People Power candidates	Group C candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Paul Kavanagh Margaret Mitsikas John Mathieson	valign=top	Stephen Mayne Judith Voce	valign=top	Rita Bentley Geoff Taylor	valign=top	John Myers	valign=top

Western Metropolitan

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates	DLP candidates
valign=top	Justin Madden Khalil Eideh Martin Pakula Henry Barlow Lisa Zanatta	valign=top	Bernie Finn Stephen Reynolds Wayne Tseng Ann Bitans	valign=top	Colleen Hartland Nam Bui Robert Humphreys Liz Ingham Nora Tchekmeyan	valign=top	Ashley Alp Anh Nguyen Robert Walker Marie Spataro Roger San Jose	valign=top	Mark Beshara Shane McCarthy
Democrats candidates	People Power candidates
valign=top	Robert Livesay Danii Coric Roger Howe	valign=top	Max Jackson Christine Williams	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top

Western Victoria

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	National candidates	Greens candidates	Family First candidates
valign=top	Jaala Pulford Gayle Tierney Elaine Carbines Christine Couzens Chris Papas	valign=top	John Vogels David Koch Kate Bullen Paul Johnston John Oxley	valign=top	Samantha McIntosh Peter McIntyre	valign=top	Marcus Ward Gillian Blair Stephen Chenery Karen McAloon Judy Cameron	valign=top	Gordon Alderson Monique Podbury Michael Croot Anna Jennings Michael Albers
DLP candidates	People Power candidates	Socialist candidates	Country Alliance candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Peter Kavanagh Clare Power David Power Michael Casanova Leanne Casanova	valign=top	Greg Jones Lachlan Jones	valign=top	Sue Bull Rowan Stewart	valign=top	Miles Hodge Ron Heath	valign=top	John Camilleri

Preselected candidates who resigned

• Jack Reilly resigned as the No 1 People Power candidate for Northern Metropolitan on Saturday 16 September 2006.
• Helen Buckingham resigned as the No 3 ALP candidate for Eastern Metropolitan.
• Mary Delahunty resigned as the ALP incumbent candidate for Northcote.
• Stephen Mayne resigned as the No. 1 People Power candidate for Southern Metropolitan on 18 October 2006, but he reversed this decision on 1 November 2006.
• Wally Rogers resigned as the Liberal candidate for Yuroke due to illness.
• Frank Dawood resigned as the Liberal candidate for Dandenong.
• Andrew Olexander did not nominate after all

See also

• Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 2002-2006
• Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 2002-2006
• 2006 Victorian state election
• Results of the Victorian state election, 2006

References

• National Executive finalises Victorian Upper House Ticket, 14 March 2006
• Liberal Candidates for the 2006 Election
• Peter Hall to stand for Gippsland Province
• Nationals ticket for Northern Region, 8 May 2006
• People Power Victorian Candidates, 7 June 2006
• People Power Victorian State Election, 7 June 2006
• Country Alliance: Rural – Regional – Recreational Candidates, 7 June 2006
• Stefano de Pieri – Candidate for Northern Victoria Region, 7 June 2006
• Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of Australia – http://www.dlp.org.au, 20 June 2006
• Liberal Candidates for the 2006 Election, 21 June 2006
• The Age – Another party shooting at its own foot – Warrandyte Liberal pre-selection, 30 June 2006
• Greens Candidates